overcrowded…

10 Wednesday Jul 2024

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this morning I discovered a number of poppies and bachelor buttons were blooming in the wildflower pot;-)…

apparently, a couple of the poppies had slipped under the fence and grown up between the bricks in the neighbouring yard, lol…

it was fun to get a photo of all of them beside the Inukshuk;-)…

the pot is overcrowded so I hope that more will bloom before a space problem arises…

testing…

09 Tuesday Jul 2024

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we’ve come to that time of summer when the sparrow babies are testing out their wings…

it can be a dangerous time in the garden, because many of them believe they can hover, like hummingbirds, lol… which they can’t…

they come very close to my head as they manoeuvre around trying to follow their parents and land without injury…

they think they can have dust baths on cushions and land on a dime…

but they still want mommy and daddy to feed them…

cascading…

08 Monday Jul 2024

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on Sunday, I put out all the cushions as there was no rain in the forecast;-)…

the waterfall was running very slowly so I climbed into the pond and cleaned out all the muck that had accumulated in the filter of the pump…

then I trimmed up some of the plants in one of the floating baskets as the fish swam around my legs, completely unconcerned…

now the waterfall is cascading beautifully;-)…

develops…

06 Saturday Jul 2024

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this morning I spent some time in the veggie garden… formerly known as the shade garden, lol…

there are peas starting to fill out the pods and the bean and cucumber plants are stretching up to the arch…

I’ve been doing some reading on tomato plants and decided to trim back the bottom leaves to give them more air…

I was surprised at how many branches were removed…

I guess we will see what develops…

strawberry…

05 Friday Jul 2024

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so far I haven’t had a single strawberry, although at least two were nearly perfect when they vanished…

tonight we ran out to the store and picked up a folding circular hamper…

I cut away the top and popped the whole thing over the strawberry plant, pot and roller… fit perfectly;-)…

maybe I will get some strawberries now…

tentative…

04 Thursday Jul 2024

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last night, after supper, I felt as though I had something stuck in one of my back teeth…

after trying for a while to get it out, I realized that a piece of my back tooth was missing…

kind of freaked me out… anyone who knows me knows how I feel about going to the dentist, sigh…

it didn’t hurt, but I kept wondering if it was going to…

first thing in the morning I called and was able to get in to see my dentist…

had to take a taxi to get there and found it rather difficult to see how much was owed…

I just barely sat down when I was called into the office…

it took nearly an hour for the filling to be completed… it was a bad one and apparently it was in the worst place for someone like me who has a tremendous gag reflex, lol… glad it is over…

walked down to the Delta and caught a cab home…

I am still rather tentative about chewing on that side…

painting…

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

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while we were at the cottage a dear friend of my daughter came to spend the day…

they had fun visiting, walking the beach, going in the water and playing with paint…

it was lovely to see them enjoy their time together…

I was reminded of the many times they spent together, and with their friends, when they were much younger, lol…

watching them painting brought back their project when they were in their teens… three of them spent a few days painting the bedroom door of my daughter’s room…

since then the door has moved every time she has…

currently it lives in her hallway…

it is so good to see these young people maintaining longtime friendships…

sprinkled…

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Monday, while supper was cooking on Barbie, the barbecue, my housemate sprinkled grass seed over the non-grassed areas in the garden…

it had been raining off and on all day and was supposed to continue all day today…

after putting down the grass he used the last of the soil to cover everything and then raked it over…

now I have been directed to water every single day unless it rains;-(…

stripped…

01 Monday Jul 2024

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yesterday I moved five monarch caterpillars from one area of milkweed, where all of the leaves had been devoured across the path to the group that were caterpillar-free…

this picture is before every single leaf had been gobbled up…

I used a stick to move them because I didn’t want to get injured, lol…

at least one of the caterpillars was miffed because it opened its mouth wide and felt like it was hissing at me…

I guess they also travelled on their own, because today I discovered eleven on those plants… and I moved another one that seemed to be trying to eat the stem of the stripped milkweed…

hope there are enough leaves to get them to the correct size to move into the chrysalis phase;-)…